Resources

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2026

• Fight, flight, or freeze? — June 2026
• Webinar - English / French - 20.05.2026 — May 2026
• Webinar - Deutsch - 19.05.2026 — May 2026
• Silicon Boundaries — March 2026
• The Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) has published its annual Climate Transition Forecast 2026 based on a global survey of climate transition experts. — March 2026
• How transition risk tools can help assess geopolitical risks — March 2026

2025

• IPR - Quarterly Policy Forecast Tracker Q3 2025 — October 2025
• IPR - Quarterly Policy Forecast Tracker Q2 2025 — July 2025
• IPR - Quarterly Policy Forecast Tracker Q4 2024 + Q1 2025 — April 2025
• IPR - 2025 Transition Forecast — February 2025
• Life STRESS: Social Risk and Nature Risk Methodology Report — January 2025
• Life STRESS: tilTRISK Methodology Q4 2024 — January 2025

2024

• Is mandatory climate insurance a good idea? — December 2024
• Reducing EU reporting costs by +€4 billion per year — November 2024
• WE WERE WRONG — July 2024
• Inevitable Policy Response Mid-year Review — July 2024
• Life STRESS: How climate stress-tests may underestimate financial losses from physical climate risks by a factor of 2-3x — June 2024
• Every Vote Counts! Footprinting your voting, consumption, and investment choices — May 2024
• MAKE OR BREAK - Tripling renewables — April 2024
• Climate risks may be underestimated by 2-3x — March 2024
• Life STRESS: Scenario Processing Methodology — March 2024

2023

• MAKE OR BREAK - Temperatures — December 2023
• Financing Direct Air Capture — December 2023
• Should long-term investors buy the market portfolio? — October 2023
• Make or Break: NGFS — October 2023
• Make or Break: GFANZ — October 2023
• Dynamic Portfolios — October 2023
• Tracking Real World Emissions Reductions — June 2023
• tilt - Climate-related data for SMEs — June 2023

2022

• Integrating sustainability preferences of clients — August 2022
• Fighting greenwashing… what do we really need? — July 2022
• 0% of PCAF signatories currently comply with the PCAF standard — June 2022
• Cabinet of Curiosities - The world of mainstream & low-carbon benchmarks — June 2022
• 4 strategies for integrating dynamic assumptions into long-term stress-tests — June 2022
• Do We Speak the Same Language? A market survey on the future of ESG ratings — May 2022
• Luxembourg Financial Centre PACTA Analysis — May 2022
• What do your clients actually want? Understanding and estimating household demand for sustainable financial products — May 2022
• How Can Net Zero Finance Best Drive Positive Impact in the Real Economy? — May 2022
• Please Don’t Let Them Be Misunderstood! How financial advisors consider clients’ sustainability motivations before the upcoming MiFID II Delegated Act — May 2022
• Draft questionnaire & guidance for client sustainability preferences — April 2022
• The Value of Life: What would climate policies look like if they mirrored the COVID-19 response? — April 2022
• Sailing into the Sunset or Charting a New Course? A discussion paper on alignment metrics to measure the prospects for a fossil fuel transition — April 2022
• From Bogotá to Paris? Measuring the climate alignment of Colombian insurance companies’ portfolios — March 2022
• Do Investors Understand the Long-Term? — March 2022
• Climate Portfolio Alignment for Corporate Lending in Malaysia — February 2022
• Assessing Readiness for the Low-Carbon Transition — February 2022
• Is the EU on its Way to a Green Recovery from Covid? — January 2022
• Heading North? Assessing the alignment of Norway’s financial sector with the Paris Agreement — January 2022

2021

• I’ve Got the Power! Really? Assessing the impact potential of financial products supporting the energy transition — November 2021
• The Cost for the Financial Sector if Firms Delay Climate Action — November 2021
• Taking the Plunge: A stocktake of national financial sector climate alignment assessments — November 2021
• Climate Impact Management System for Financial Institutions — October 2021
• The UK's Forgotten Fossil Fuel Subsidy — September 2021
• A Citizen's Footprint: An analysis of the carbon footprint of consumption, investment, and political choices for the UK and Germany — September 2021
• Are Sustainable Finance Policies Evidence-Based? — August 2021
• Please Mr. Postman! Ten messages on portfolio alignment & implied temperature rise — July 2021
• PACTA Climate Alignment Assessment of the Austrian Financial Sector — July 2021
• 1in1000: Integrating Future Risks & Challenges into Investment Metrics, Processes, and Financial Regulation — June 2021
• An Analysis of New York Domestic Insurers’ Exposure to Transition Risks and Opportunities from Climate Change — June 2021
• Sustainable Finance and Market Integrity: Promise Only What You Can Deliver — June 2021
• Climate Impact Management System - for consultation — April 2021
• Green mis-selling: New study on extraterrestrial non-sustainability preferences — April 2021
• How Can Financial Sector Taxes Contribute to Climate Goals? — March 2021
• ¿Riesgo u oportunidad?: Un análisis del desempeño de los Fondos de Inversión Colectiva de Colombia frente al cambio climático — March 2021
• The Disclosure Puzzle: The Role of PACTA — March 2021
• A Burden They Will Carry: The potential economic & financial cost of climate liabilities to companies and investors — March 2021
• Financial Supervision Beyond the Business Cycle: Towards a New Paradigm — March 2021
• Commentaires et propositions pour le Comité Scientifique de l’Observatoire de la Finance Durable — March 2021
• Finance 2030: A Time Travel Exercise — February 2021
• Assessing the Alignment of the Liechtenstein Financial Sector with the Paris Agreement — January 2021

2020

• On the Road to Paris? A review of financial institutions' climate-related commitments — December 2020
• A Corporate Rainy-Day Fund: A regulatory approach to ensuring financial resilience in the face of future risks — December 2020
• Swipe Left: Warum es bei nachhaltigen Finanzprodukten keine Matches gibt — November 2020
• Bridging the Gap: Measuring progress on the climate goal alignment & climate actions of Swiss financial institutions — November 2020
• Credit Portfolio Alignment: An application of the PACTA methodology by Katowice Banks in partnership with 2DII — September 2020
• Science-based Targets for Financial Institutions: Position Deck & Stakeholder Survey — August 2020
• PACTA: Taking the Temperature of Financial Assets — July 2020
• Gauging the Exposure to Transition Risks of Colombian Insurers’ Investment Portfolios — July 2020
• Transition Risks Assessment of Latin American Financial Institutions & the use of Scenario Analysis — July 2020
• Changing Gear: Alignment of major auto manufacturers with the goals of the Paris Agreement — June 2020
• EU Climate Benchmarks Factsheet — May 2020
• A Large Majority of Retail Clients Want to Invest Sustainably — March 2020
• EU Retail Funds’ Environmental Impact Claims Do Not Comply with Regulatory Guidance — March 2020
• Retail Clients Want to Vote for Paris — March 2020
• Feedback on the Second Version of the Ecolabel Criteria for Financial Products — March 2020
• Stress-testing COVID-19 — March 2020
• Report with ABN AMRO: Guiding a bank’s energy portfolio to Paris — March 2020
• (Nachhaltig) Sein oder nicht sein… das ist hier die Frage — March 2020
• 1in1000 Program on Future Risks & Challenges — February 2020
• Science-Based Targets for Financial Institutions: Position & Consultation Deck — February 2020
• A Guide to Science-Based Target Setting for Financial Institutions — February 2020
• Partnerships with supervisors — February 2020
• A Primer on Long-Term Financial Supervision — February 2020
• Climate stress-testing simulation game — January 2020
• To What Degree? A climate scenario analysis of U.S. insurers’ portfolios — January 2020

2019

• Passing the Baton: Shareholder resolutions & their contribution to investor climate pledges — December 2019
• Into the Fire... Financial Supervision in a Post-Crisis / Pre-Crisis World — December 2019
• Asset Managers & Climate Change, a study with InfluenceMap — November 2019
• Do You Manage What You Measure? — October 2019
• Implications of Climate Change for Risk Management — October 2019
• Impact Washing Gets a Free Ride — June 2019
• Sustainability Improvement Loans — June 2019
• Financing the 'Clean Billion' — March 2019
• Storm Ahead: A Proposal for a Climate Stress-Test Scenario — February 2019

2018

• Climate Impact: What It Is and How to Achieve It — December 2018
• The Elephant in the Room: Aligning Global Bond Markets with Climate Goals — June 2018
• Discussion Paper: The Elephant in the Room - Aligning Global Bond Markets with Climate Goals — June 2018
• Shooting for the Moon in a Hot Air Balloon? — May 2018
• Discussion paper: Shooting for the moon in a hot air balloon? Measuring how green bonds contribute to scaling up investments in green projects — May 2018
• The Bigger Picture: The Impact of Automation, AI, Shared Economy ... on Oil Demand — May 2018
• The Green Supporting Factor — April 2018
• Testing the Japanese Listed Equity Market Alignment with the 2°C Climate Goal — February 2018
• Financing a Sustainable European Economy — January 2018
• It's on You! Bringing Climate Assessments for Household Credit into the 21st Century — January 2018
• A Taxonomy of Climate Accounting Principles for Financial Portfolios — January 2018

2017

• ISO Standard for Investment, Financing and Climate Change — November 2017
• Out of the Fog — October 2017
• Non-Financial Message in a Bottle — October 2017
• Right Direction, Wrong Equipment — September 2017
• The Carbon Boomerang — September 2017
• Limited Visibility: The Current State of Corporate Disclosure on Long-term Risks — September 2017
• Yellow Brick Road — August 2017
• Transition Risks and Market Failure — August 2017
• Transition Risks and Market Failure — August 2017
• Lifeguard Wanted: Tracking Art. 2.1c & Transition Risks in Financial Markets — August 2017
• Changing Colors — August 2017
• Lighting the Way to Best Practice: Climate Reporting Case Studies — June 2017
• Trails for Climate Disclosure: A Regulatory Overview — June 2017
• The Transition Risk-o-Meter — June 2017
• Stress-testing Alien Invasion — April 2017
• Fiscalité de l’Epargne Financière et Orientation des Investissements — April 2017
• Hit & Miss: About TCFD Disclosure Guidance for Financial Institutions — March 2017
• Listening to the Silent Majority — March 2017
• Asset-Level Data & Climate-related Financial Analysis: A Market Survey — February 2017
• The Long and Winding Road — February 2017
• Finance Sector Alignment with International Climate Goals — February 2017
• All Swans are Black in the Dark — February 2017

2016

• Transition Risk Toolbox — December 2016
• Der Finanzsektor als Brücke zum 2°Klimaziel — September 2016
• Investor Climate Disclosure — May 2016
• Climate Disclosure: How to Make it Fly — May 2016
• Measuring Progress on Greening Financial Markets — April 2016
• Building a Sustainable Financial System in the EU — March 2016
• Reviewing the Evidence: 10 Questions for the FSB Climate Disclosure Task Force — February 2016

2015

• Climate Strategies & Metrics: Exploring Options for Institutional Investors — November 2015
• Developing 2°C Compatible Investment Criteria — November 2015
• Carbon Intensity ≠ Carbon Risk Exposure — November 2015
• Assessing the Alignment of Portfolios with Climate Goals — October 2015
• Decree Implementing Article 173-VI of the French Law for the Energy Transition — October 2015
• Climate Impact: What it is and How to Achieve it — October 2015
• Carbon Asset Risk: Discussion Framework — August 2015
• Politiques publiques pour le secteur financier et transition énergétique — July 2015
• Developing Criteria to Align Investments with 2° Compatible Pathways — May 2015
• Climate Strategies and Metrics — May 2015
• Green SMEs and Access to Finance: The Role of Banking Diversity — May 2015
• Establishing China's Green Financial System — April 2015
• Greening China's Financial System - Synthesis Report — March 2015
• China Carbon Market Research Report — February 2015

2014

• Carbon Risk for Financial Institutions — October 2014
• The Turtle Becomes the Hare — October 2014
• Optimal Diversification and the Energy Transition — July 2014
• Transition to a Low-Carbon Society and Sustainable Economic Recovery — July 2014
• Shifting Private Capital Towards Climate-Friendly Investments — April 2014

2013

• Carbon Boomerang: The Landscape of Climate Litigation Risks — December 2013
• Landscaping Carbon Risk for Financial Intermediaries — November 2013
• From Financed Emissions to Long-Term Investing Metrics — September 2013

2012

• Connecting the Dots Between Climate Goals, Portfolio Allocation and Financial Regulation — October 2012